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The world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

Category: History: Europe & England: 17th C


Author: Margaret Willes


Copyright/published Year: 2017 by Yale Univ Press


ISBN: 0300221398


Binding: hardcover


Description:
An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during ì one of the most dramatic periods of English history.

Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated ì English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close ì friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms ì our understanding of their times.

Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel ì aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought ì together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught ì up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for ì life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual ì interests-diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books-and ì their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn ì for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented ì lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of ì London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, ì and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling ì possibility.


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Additional condition description

Very lightly read copy. Clean and unmarked. No remainder marks.


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